Stock-based Compensation | Note 4 - Stock-based Compensation On June 19, 2019, our stockholders approved, and we adopted the Processa Pharmaceuticals Inc. 2019 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan (the “2019 Plan”). The 2019 Plan allows us, under the direction of our Board of Directors or a committee thereof, to make grants of stock options, restricted and unrestricted stock and other stock-based awards to employees, including our executive officers, consultants and directors. The 2019 Plan originally provided 3,000,000 627,086 shares available for future grants at June 30, 2022. On July 11, 2022, our shareholders approved an increase in the aggregate number of shares of our common stock available for issuance under our 2019 plan by 3,000,000 shares to 6,000,000 Stock Compensation Expense We recorded stock-based compensation expense for the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2022 and 2021 as follows: Schedule of Stock-based Compensation Expense Three Months Ended June 30, Six Months Ended June 30, 2022 2021 2022 2021 Research and development $ 685,624 $ 191,594 $ 877,500 $ 245,385 General and administrative 1,323,745 673,729 1,960,766 928,237 Total $ 2,009,369 $ 865,323 $ 2,838,266 $ 1,173,622 No tax benefits were attributed to the stock-based compensation expense because a valuation allowance was maintained for all net deferred tax assets relating to this expense. Stock Options No 178,496 17.07 3.1 exercisable at June 30, 2022 for the purchase of 176,315 17.02 3.0 37,000 Restricted Stock Awards On January 4, 2022, we granted and issued Restricted Stock Awards (“RSAs”) for 9,766 50,000 72,832 252,000 17,572 120,000 On May 31, 2022, a director did not seek reelection and forfeited the 18,208 We did not cancel any RSAs during the six months ended June 30, 2022. At June 30, 2022, we had unvested RSAs for 145,733 shares with a weighted average grant date fair value of $ 6.13 . Unvested RSAs representing 120,733 shares are expected to vest at various dates in 2022, 12,500 shares are expected to vest in 2023, and the remainder are expected to vest in 2024. As of June 30, 2022, the total unrecognized stock-based compensation expense related to the outstanding RSAs was approximately $ 310,000 0.8 Restricted Stock Units Activity with respect to our Restricted Stock Units (“RSUs”) during the six months ended June 30, 2022 was as follows: Schedule of Information About RSU Outstanding Number of shares Weighted- average grant-date fair value per share Outstanding at January 1, 2022 439,593 Awarded 1,363,917 $ 3.01 Forfeited (22,088 ) 7.81 Issued (3,500 ) 6.65 Outstanding at June 30, 2022 1,777,922 4.12 Vested and unissued (440,374 ) 4.97 Unvested at June 30, 2022 1,337,548 $ 3.83 As of June 30, 2022, unrecognized stock-based compensation expense of approximately $ 4.0 0.8 349,000 During the six months ended June 30, 2022, we grant ed 243,131 shares of our common stock p . The value of an RSU award is based on the average share price of the month services were provided. 5.00 Included in RSUs awarded during the six months ended June 30, 2022 are RSUs awarded on April 1, 2022 for 1,979,818 879,819 d 3.3 2.9 The $ 3.3 2.9 beginning in the third quarter of 2022 . Holders of our vested RSUs will be d satisfaction Warrants No stock purchase warrants were granted, cancelled 303,725 shares with a weighted average exercise price of $ 10.66 1.3 Effective May 3, 2022, we extended the expiration date of a warrant held by a consultant by one year in connection with the extension of their service agreement. No other terms of the warrant, including the exercise price of $ 7.18 , were changed. We will recognize expense of approximately $ 33,000 related to this warrant modification over a one-year period beginning May 2022. |